Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Over the gloom of Schedoni, no scenery had, at any moment, power; the shape and paint of external imagery gave neither impression or colour to his fancy."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20347
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20347"Her mind resembled an empty mirror, which has no character, no images of its own, borrows every impression from some passing object, and, if left to itself, would for ever remain vacant."Work: Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieceshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22194
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22194There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their <em>kind</em>, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...Work: A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Tradehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19125
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19125"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."Work: Glass [from Poetical Works]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/15624
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